Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-12
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When VIII Our Eyes be Opened to this
Great National calamity7

The year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent r.M oiour country.
Many OF them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full
flush OF life.
Others were sick but comparatively
short time. We turn to onr files and
are astonished to find that most of them
died OF apoplexy, OF paralysis, OF nerv-
GUS prostration, OF malignant blood
humor, OF Bright's disease, Of heart
disease, of kidney disease, of rheuma-
tism OF of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our prom
iEent men die of these disorders. Any
journalist who watches the telegraph
reports, will be astonished at the num-
Der Of prominent victims OF these dis
orders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases that carried off SO many
prominent men in 1886, are really one
disease. taking different names accord
ing to the location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse pershes, it
becomes nine days talk of the sporting
world, and yet thousands of ordinary
horses are dying every day, their
aggregate loss is enormous, and yet
their death creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause
of death of prominent men creates
comment, especially when it can be
shown that enc unsupported disease
carries off most of them, and yet "vast
numbers of ordinary men and women
die before their time every year from
the same cause"
It is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart diseases,
paralysis nervous, prostration, pneumo.
MIA, rheumatism, and many cases Of
consumption, would never be known
This uric acid, we are told, is the waste
of the system, and 1t is the duty of the
kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood
and these sudden and universal diseases
caused by uric acid will, in a large
measure disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t il
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause, tina
way should be known to the public
We believe that Warmers safe cure, {
which so much has been written, and 81
much talked of by the public generally
is now recognized by impartial physi
clans and the public as the one specific
for such diseases.
Because public attention has beer
, directed to this great remedy by mean
OF advertising, some persons have no
believed in the remedy. We canno
see how Mr.. Warner could immediatel,
benefit the public in any other way, AM
his valuable specific should not be con
demned because some nostrums hav
come before the public in the sam
way, any more than that all doctor
., should be condemned because so man,
: of them are incompetent.
, 1t is astonishing what good opinion
you hear on every side, of that grea
remedy, and public opinion thus base
upon an actual experience, has all tn
I weight and importance OF absolut
a truth.
| At this time of the year, the uric aci
in the blood invites pneumonia ant
rheumatism, and there is not ma
= who does not dread these monsters c
) disease; but he need have no fear {
: them we are told, if he rid the bloc
y of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and ma
e sound like an advertisement, and b
I rejected IS such by unthinking people
but we believe they are the truth, an
as such should be spoken by ever
: truth-loving newspaper.